Words accidentally found

[avrelia]

Studying English is fun. Sometimes. Again I found a bunch of words to show off.

Behold:

Alothen – to grow disgusting
Amplexus – a mating embrace of a toad or frog
Anaxiphilia – the act of falling in love with the wrong person
Baratress – a female quarreller
Bdelloid – resembling a leech
Cacozelot – an evil zealot
Callomaniac – a person under the delusion that he or she is beautiful
Circumstantiality – an inability to separate important from unimportant details when telling a story
Cockalorum – a self-important little man

Some more may be later. ::goes to memorize new words::

Comments

[onetwomany.livejournal.com]

Hee - all very cool, but I have heard of none of them. None. I think I need to buy myself a thesaurus ;)

Re:

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Hee! don't worry, those are obscure words. I picked them up from the book Insulting English
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312272081/002-8809309-1391226?v=glance
and it is just too funny not to share.